TIN HOUSE POETRY CATALOG NEW TITLES & ESSENTIAL BACKLIST 2021 Contents All The Names Given ..................................................... 1 My Darling from the Lions.................................................. 2 Superdoom: Selected Poems ................................................. 3 Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night ................................ 4 The Perseverance ......................................................... 5 Negotiations ............................................................. 6 Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution ................................ 7 Anodyne ................................................................. 8 My Baby First Birthday .................................................... 9 Good Boys .............................................................. 10 A Sand Book ............................................................. 11 Feed ..................................................................... 12 A Fortune for Your Disaster ................................................. 13 Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself ........................................ 14 Magical Negro ........................................................... 15 When Rap Spoke Straight to God............................................ 16 Junk ..................................................................... 17 The Möbius Strip Club of Grief ............................................. 18 Nature Poem ............................................................ 19 There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé ............................... 20 Last Sext ................................................................. 21 Someone Else’s Wedding Vows............................................. 22 Portuguese .............................................................. 23 Contact and Distribution Information .......................................24 1 A powerful and deeply personal collection of poems from the award- winning author of The Perseverance All The Names Given by RAYMOND ANTROBUS n the heels of his much-lauded debut Ocollection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscom- munication, place, and memory in All The Names Given, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. The collection opens with poems about the author’s surname—one that shouldn’t have sur- vived into modernity—and examines the rich and fraught history carried within it. As Antrobus outlines a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a space in which the poet reckons with his own an- cestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence of the legacy wrought by colonialism. The poems travel through space—shifting fluidly between England, South Africa, Jamaica, and the American South—and brilliantly move from an examination of family history into the wander- ing lust of adolescence and finally, vividly, into a complex array of marriage poems—matured, wiser, US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 and more accepting of love’s fragility. Throughout, ISBN 978-1-951142-92-6 · 6" x 9" · 62 pages All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption ON SALE NOVEMBER 9, 2021 Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, in which the art of writing cap- tions attempts to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems as well as moments inside and RAYMOND ANTROBUS outside of them. was born in London to an Formally sophisticated, with a weighty English mother and Jamaican perception and startling directness, All The Names father. He was awarded the Given is a timely, tender book full of humanity and 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, remembrance from one of the most important judged by Ocean Vuong, Sunday young poets of our generation. as well as the 2019 Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. His debut collection, The Perseverance, won the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, among oth- ers. Raymond is currently based between London and Oklahoma City. 2 “Rachel Long is an enchanting and heartwarming new voice in poetry.” My Darling from —BERNARDINE EVARISTO the Lions NAMED A BEST POETRY BOOK by RACHEL LONG OF 2020 BY THE GUARDIAN SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, COSTA POETRY AWARD, AND THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION ach poem in Rachel Long’s award-winning EMy Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell—of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion, or sexual awakening—stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically con- scious, wise, funny, and outrageous. Told in three sections, it’s a book about growing up, falling in love with not-great men, girlhood, and Barbie doll men in fast cars; a book about femininity, di- vinity, familial shame, Black identity, and modern culture. US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 Long reveals herself as a razor-sharp and ISBN 978-1-951142-71-1 · 6" x 9" · 87 pages original voice on the issues of sexual politics and ON SALE SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 cultural inheritance that polarize our current moment. With a fresh commitment to the power of the individual poem, her collection offers immediate, wide-awake poetry that entertains royally, without sacrificing a note of its urgency or remarkable skill. My Darling from the Lions marks the arrival of a RACHEL LONG is a poet and the founder of Octavia thrilling new voice and presence in poetry. Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, which is housed at Southbank Centre in London. My Darling from the Lions, first published by Picador in 2020, is her debut collection. She was born in London, and resides there today. 3 From the acclaimed author of Milk Fed, The Pisces, and So Sad Today, Superdoom showcases Broder as one of the most Superdoom: original and audacious poets working today. Selected Poems by MELISSA BRODER eaturing a new introduction from the author, FSuperdoom: Selected Poems brings together the best of Melissa Broder’s three cult out-of-print poetry collections—When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother, Meat Heart, and Scarecrone—as well as the best of her fourth collection, Last Sext. Embracing the sacred and the profane, often simultaneously, Broder gazes into the abyss and at the human body, with humor and heartbreak, lust and terror. Broder’s language is entirely her own, marked both by brutal strangeness and raw intimacy. At turns essayistic and surreal, bounc- ing between the grotesque and the transcendent, Superdoom is a must-have for longtime fans and the perfect introduction to one of our most bril- liant and original poets. US $18.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $24.95 ISBN 978-1-951142-65-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 192 pages ON SALE AUGUST 10, 2021 MELISSA BRODER is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay col- lection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles. 4 OTHER PEOPLE’S COMFORT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT—THE BOOK THAT Other People’s LAUNCHED THE CAREER OF ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT YOUNG Comfort Keeps Me AMERICAN POETS—IS BACK IN PRINT Up at Night WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY by MORGAN PARKER DANEZ SMITH. “Hilarious and hard-hitting . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music.” —TRACY K. SMITH he debut collection from award-winning Tpoet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, The New York school and reality television. She collapses any foolish dis- tinctions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains eve- rything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work. US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 ISBN 978-1-951142-56-8 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 120 pages ON SALE JULY 13, 2021 MORGAN PARKER is a poet, essayist, and novel- ist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsper- son” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” 5 A POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE GUARDIAN,THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND POETRY SCHOOL The Perseverance by RAYMOND ANTROBUS WINNER OF THE TED HUGHES AWARD, THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, AND THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD; SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE "This book is a gift, for how it repurposes my understanding of treacherous feelings, and shapes them into something worth sticking around for.” —HANIF ABDURRAQIB n the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in IRaymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance travels to Gaudí’s cathedral in Barcelona. Ruminating on the idea of silence and sound, he wonders whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original